List of acts of the 2nd session of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
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This is a list of acts of the 2nd session of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom, which ran from 1 November 1960[1] until 24 October 1961.[2]
Acts passed before 1963 are
personal acts. These run as separate series.[5]
112 acts of Parliament were passed by the 42nd Parliament in its 2nd session: 65 public general acts and 47 local acts.
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Public general acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | Licensing Act 1961  | 9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 61 | 3 August 1961 | ||
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An Act to amend the Licensing Act, 1953, to make further provision about the sale and supply of intoxicating liquor and about licensed premises, and for purposes connected therewith. | ||||||
9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 62 | 3 August 1961 | |||||
An Act to make fresh provision with respect to investment by trustees and persons having the investment powers of trustees, and by local authorities, and for purposes connected therewith. | ||||||
9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 63 | 3 August 1961 | |||||
An Act to make certain amendments to the law relating to highways, streets and bridges in England and Wales. | ||||||
9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 64 | 3 August 1961 | |||||
An Act to amend the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1936, relating to building byelaws, to make such amendments of the law relating to public health and the functions of county councils and other local authorities as are commonly made in local Acts, to amend the law relating to trade effluents and to amend section two hundred and forty-nine of the said Act of 1936. | ||||||
9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 65 | 24 October 1961 | |||||
An Act to make further arrangements for the giving of financial assistance for the provision of housing accommodation, to confer further powers on local authorities as regards houses let in lodgings or occupied by more than one family, and houses or other buildings affected by clearance orders and demolition orders, to amend section five of the Rent Act, 1957, by allowing a greater increase in the permitted rent for improvements, to alter the circumstances in which improvement grants and standard grants may be made under Part II of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1958, and the Housing and House Purchase Act, 1959, to amend the law with respect to repairing obligations in short tenancies of dwelling-houses, and to amend the Town Development Act, 1952, as regards development carried out wholly or partly in a county borough and as regards the assistance which may be given by a county council for town development; and for purposes connected with any of those matters. | ||||||
Local Acts
| Short title, or popular name | Citation | River Ravensbourne, &c., (Improvement and Flood Prevention) Act 1961 | 9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. xlvi | 3 August 1961 | ||
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An Act to confer powers upon the London County Council and the Kent County Council for the improvement and protection of, and the prevention of flooding from, the river Ravensbourne and its tributaries, and for purposes connected therewith. | ||||||
9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. xlvii | 3 August 1961 | |||||
An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of a bridge across the river Usk in the county borough of Newport with approach roads and other works; and for other purposes. | ||||||
References
- ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 216, p. 3.
- ^ House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 216, p. 344.
- ^ Law Commission; Scottish Law Commission, Report on the Interpretation Act 1889 and certain other enactments relating to the construction and operation of Acts of Parliament and other instruments (PDF), (Cmnd. 7235; Law Com. No. 90; Scot Law Com. No. 53, 1978) para. 7A; cf. An Act for shortening the Language used in Acts of Parliament, 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21, s. 3 (now rep.) and the Interpretation Act 1889, 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63, s. 35(1) (now rep.).
- ^ Acts of Parliament Numbering and Citation Act 1962, 10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 34, s. 1.
- ^ Erskine May, para. 30.75, archived from the original on 9 September 2021, retrieved 9 September 2021.